ISBN 9780815608332 | 0815608330 Textbooks - "Disciples of Passion Middle East Literature in Translation" by Marilyn Booth Marilyn Barakat Hoda Barakat Hoda Booth Hoda and Booth

Authors: Marilyn Booth - Marilyn - Barakat - Hoda Barakat - Hoda / Booth - Hoda and Booth
ISBN 10: 0815608330
ISBN 13: 9780815608332
Release: October 1, 2005
Format: Hardcover (136 pages)
List Price: $19.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism, African,

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A novel by a writer hailed by the critics as "the most important woman novelist in Lebanon and in the Middle East," interweaving an account of the Lebanese civil war with a story of an illicit interfaith relationship. Disciples of Passion chronicles the civil war in Lebanon through the troubled and sometimes quasi-hallucinatory mind of a young man who has experienced kidnapping, hostage exchange, and hospital internment. As he recalls his village childhood and recounts his relationship with a woman of a different faith , his fragmented narrative probes the uncertainties of political testimonial and ascriptions of responsibility in wartime. Marilyn Booth's fluid translation brings to an English audience one of the Arabic language's finest contemporary novelists. Widely celebrated in France, where she currently lives in exile (from Lebanon), Hoda Barakat writes from personal experience: her novels focus on the civil war in Lebanon and how it shaped the lives of people marginalized by the conflict. Compelling scenarios of war and its aftermath of suffering and destruction are integrated into subtle psychological portraits - with protagonists often propelled into unexpected action.

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